After eight years of Obama’s appeasement and empowering of Iran (while the Iranians chanted “Death to America”), this is good to see. The Iranian mullahs who lead the Islamic Republic are itching for war with the United States, as I detail in my book The Complete Infidel’s Guide to Iran. They may get it. If they do, American Leftists will howl even louder than they are howling now, and praise Obama for keeping the peace. They will not discuss Iran’s genocidal threats against Israel or its global jihad terror network. For some people, peace is to be maintained at any cost, no matter how high. But if this rogue regime is able to carry out its full plans, some will rue the day that they denounced Trump for standing up to it.
“U.S. Imposes New Sanctions on Iran in Wake of Missile Tests,” by Nick Wadhams and Saleha Mohsin, Bloomberg, February 3, 2017:
The U.S. imposed fresh sanctions on Iran as President Donald Trump seeks to punish Tehran for its ballistic missile program after warning that the Islamic Republic that it is “playing with fire.”
In a statement Friday morning, the Treasury Department published a list of 13 individuals and 12 entities facing new restrictions for supporting the missile program, having links to terrorism or providing support for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The entities include companies based in Tehran, United Arab Emirates, Lebanon and China.
“This action reflects the United States’ commitment to enforcing sanctions on Iran with respect to its ballistic missile program and destabilizing activities in the region and is fully consistent with the United States’ commitments under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action,” the statement said in a reference to the nuclear accord Iran reached with the U.S. and five other world powers.
The Trump administration has taken a hard line on Iran, banning its citizens from entering the U.S. and accusing the nation of interfering in the affairs of U.S. allies in the Middle East. While such an approach could satisfy hawks in Washington who were never comfortable with President Barack Obama’s tentative rapprochement with Iran, it could also unsettle domestic Iranian politics as President Hassan Rouhani seeks re-election in May.
“Iran is playing with fire — they don’t appreciate how ‘kind’ President Obama was to them. Not me!,” Trump tweeted early Friday….